Subby your headline makes it sound as though the article is about areas such as low lying spots around rivers or on the shorline.The article is about population shift due to social changes and economic factors.It says that right in the headline and first paragraph.

Since 2010, many of the fastest-growing U.S. metro areas have also been those that historically received a lot of federal dollars, including Fort Stewart, Ga., Jacksonville, N.C., Crestview, Fla., and Charleston-North Charleston, S.C., all home to military bases.

I don't think these regions should never have been populated. It's just that their haydays are past. There's fewer reasons for fewer people to stay there. Old opportunites are tapped out and new opportunities are cropping up and they aren't in these old places. There is no frontier anymore.

cgraves67:I don't think these regions should never have been populated. It's just that their haydays are past. There's fewer reasons for fewer people to stay there. Old opportunites are tapped out and new opportunities are cropping up and they aren't in these old places. There is no frontier anymore

You may see some of that reverse if food and other commodity prices stay pretty high. Starting to see a little more movement into these sectors as a change. Don't know if it will last, but there are some pretty good boom areas in the more rual areas compared to a decade ago. Rural Nevada and North Dakota are two good examples.

It amazes me that so many people are so much more attached to their geographic place than they are to the lifestyle they wanted, the plans they had, their dreams, culture, and the families that abandoned them to live in more civilized parts.

dv-ous:It amazes me that so many people are so much more attached to their geographic place than they are to the lifestyle they wanted, the plans they had, their dreams, culture, and the families that abandoned them to live in more civilized parts.

Some of us raised in the rural areas have a huge connection to the geographical area and the land that we grew up on. Many of us spend our time and effort looking for a job and scraping by so that we can continue to live in these places.

Not everything in life is about status and money when you get to see this out your backdoor regularly.

xanadian:In the last year, Maine joined West Virginia as the only two entire states where deaths exceed births

WOO!! YEAH, MAINE!!!! WE'RE #...2! WE'RE #2!

I drove through WV last week. A large part of that state looks like a wasteland right now. Dead, brown, unpopulated. And lots of the areas that are populated look like they are falling apart. That includes the capital.

Kids grow up here in Vermont. Realize they can get paid a lot to teach buffoons to ski on a bunny slope in Colorado, where the slopes are like huge bunny slopes, then find out the rest of the country is paved, and has tons more in the pussy and burger selection department, plus, now weeds' practically legal out there.We never see them again. If they don't like to ski, they move to Seattle.If they don't like to bathe, they move to California.Leaves the state to the old folks.

dv-ous:It amazes me that so many people are so much more attached to their geographic place than they are to the lifestyle they wanted, the plans they had, their dreams, culture, and the families that abandoned them to live in more civilized parts.

It amazes me you think geography can be so easily separated for lifestyle, plans, dreams, and culture.

I can't spend more than a week in the west before the aridness starts to give me the heebies. I felt more at home in Germany than I did in Los Angeles, even though I share a lifestyle, dream, and culture with LA and only topography with Germany.

HeadLever:dv-ous: It amazes me that so many people are so much more attached to their geographic place than they are to the lifestyle they wanted, the plans they had, their dreams, culture, and the families that abandoned them to live in more civilized parts.

Some of us raised in the rural areas have a huge connection to the geographical area and the land that we grew up on. Many of us spend our time and effort looking for a job and scraping by so that we can continue to live in these places.

Not everything in life is about status and money when you get to see this out your backdoor regularly.

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That and some of us who were raised in the suburbs would rather see ^ that than more suburbs. I prefer mountains to people, thanks. Now I just need broadband everywhere...

vudukungfu:Kids grow up here in Vermont. Realize they can get paid a lot to teach buffoons to ski on a bunny slope in Colorado, where the slopes are like huge bunny slopes, then find out the rest of the country is paved, and has tons more in the pussy and burger selection department, plus, now weeds' practically legal out there.We never see them again. If they don't like to ski, they move to Seattle.If they don't like to bathe, they move to California.Leaves the state to the old folks.

HeadLever:dv-ous: It amazes me that so many people are so much more attached to their geographic place than they are to the lifestyle they wanted, the plans they had, their dreams, culture, and the families that abandoned them to live in more civilized parts.

Some of us raised in the rural areas have a huge connection to the geographical area and the land that we grew up on. Many of us spend our time and effort looking for a job and scraping by so that we can continue to live in these places.

Not everything in life is about status and money when you get to see this out your backdoor regularly.

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Some of us raised in the rural areas couldn't wait to get the fark out.

This is how most people see rural Indiana. At 85 mph on the way to somewhere else.

vudukungfu: Kids grow up here in Vermont. Realize they can get paid a lot to teach buffoons to ski on a bunny slope in Colorado, where the slopes are like huge bunny slopes, then find out the rest of the country is paved, and has tons more in the pussy and burger selection department, plus, now weeds' practically legal out there.We never see them again. If they don't like to ski, they move to Seattle.If they don't like to bathe, they move to California.Leaves the state to the old folks.

Having been through there plenty, it's easy to see your point. I just don't get why it takes the Middlebury kids $200K to figure that out.

HeadLever:dv-ous: It amazes me that so many people are so much more attached to their geographic place than they are to the lifestyle they wanted, the plans they had, their dreams, culture, and the families that abandoned them to live in more civilized parts.

Some of us raised in the rural areas have a huge connection to the geographical area and the land that we grew up on. Many of us spend our time and effort looking for a job and scraping by so that we can continue to live in these places.

Not everything in life is about status and money when you get to see this out your backdoor regularly.